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The axis of sanctions busters:

Rummy – on the Board of ABB that sold nuclear technology to North Korea.

Cheney – on the Board of Halliburton that did business (through KBR) in Iran.

Condi – on the Board of Chevron that did business with Saddam’s Iraq.

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You’d think the rebs would want to forget April

I never learned about when the South turned its guns on women trying to feed their children:



Racist yokels across the state of Georgia are observing
“Confederate Heritage Month.” It also happens to be Emotional Overeating Awareness Month and Fresh Florida Tomato Month, but I digress.

In recognition of this asinine occasion, we’ll be cooperating with the chaps at Alterdestiny throughout the month to remind everyone of what “confederate heritage” actually entails.

Two years to the day after turning the state’s guns against his own citizens, Jefferson Davis fled the city of Richmond on a late-night train as the Civil War neared its conclusion.

The war started and ended in that month, after all. I expect I’ll learn a lot I never learned in the Florida school system.

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